A variety of audio compression technologies are being used today, each having a distinct advantage over the other in terms of compression ratio, coding delay, coding complexity or legacy system ...

Audio codec ICs are at the heart of many different portable devices that feature both record and playback capabilities. While the basic product selection of input and output channels with their ...

Audio compression developer launches apt-X Lossless, a next-generation lossless audio codec technology engineered for immersive, high-definition, digital entertainment applications APTX, a leading ...

Have you ever overheard someone casually talking about their preferred audio codecs, or perhaps questioning the value of one model of wireless earbuds versus another because of the audio codecs they ...

Audio codecs are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern media systems. The first and still most prominent MPEG audio codec is mp3, which first appeared on the market in 1998. Since then, ...

To boost sound quality at lower cost in PCs and notebooks, Analog Devices has combined the popular AC'97-compliant codec with DSP technology on a single 0.35-µm CMOS chip. As a result, the AD1981 now ...

Sound quality remains the number one purchase driver for both Bluetooth and smart speakers. According to “The State of Play Report 2020†(a global analysis of user behaviors and desires ...

Synopsys collaborated with Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) to release an implementation of the next-generation Bluetooth LE Audio Low Complexity Communication Codec (LC3) The new ...

In a bid to put an end to the all-too-familiar choppy, robotic voice calls that come with low bandwidth, Google is open-sourcing Lyra, a new audio codec that taps machine learning to produce ...

You may have noticed that nearly all modern iPhones and AirPods list support for Bluetooth 5.0 (the first-gen AirPods supported Bluetooth 4.2). You might surmise, then, that audio streams are being ...